A Feira Livre de Muritiba: organização territorial e política

Abstract

The free fair is the oldest periodic retail trade, in the public space, inferior circuit and itinerant with two functions: economic and fun, outdoors with tents covered with canvas, organized side by side. In this socio-occupational space is where there happens exchanges and sales of products, besides sociabilities. This spatial territory, which for Saquet (2012) is a place of relations from the appropriation and production of geographic space, always linked to social control and domination. That for Abreu (2016) this immediacy materializes by the inclination to technicism, as a strategy of "poverty management", aiming at the management and improvement of the conditions considered unfavorable of the "public / social segments". This work had as a concern to understand how the fairgrounds of the free fair of Muritiba understand this social space, aiming to discuss the territorial and political organization of the free fair of Muritiba according to the fairgrounds. The methodology used to reach the objectives followed the qualitative and quantitative research method, with semistructured questionnaires for interviews with the marketers. The results obtained revealed the profile of the marketers, as well as their motivations, difficulties and expectations. In view of the results, it was concluded that although they are very satisfied with the work environment, these professionals recognize the lack of organization as a structural difficulty in their daily life, which can be solved by the municipal public power. Another characteristic observed during the research is the distancing and disunion of the marketers, motives that cause problems and difficulties to worsen even more and without resolution, in addition to the precarizations that exist in this inferior circuit of the economy. Thus, it is expected that the transformations that materialize in this socio-occupational space represent the freedom of these social subjects, which revealed marked characteristics of this tradition of exchange and sale in the free fair, thus strengthening the professional practice of the social worker that falls within this scope territorial.